Bale-tie buckle



R Q ,-BANKS. BAhE TIE BUCKLE. APPLICATION FILED DEC.8, I919.

Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

WITNESSES entree as PAl'h-tl' DFFIQE.

ROBERT CHARLES BANKS, 01"

WILMENGTDN, NORTH CAROLINA.

BALE-TIE BUCKLE.

Application filed'Dece-mber 8, 1919. Serial No. 343,252.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Bonner C. BANKS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Wilmington, in the county of New l-lanover and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Tie Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to bale ties and more particularly to buckles which for the purpose of forming the ties are associated with tie bands to secure the ends thereof.

At the present time, it is a well known fact that in connection with buckles now in use considerable skill is required both in their disposition and connection, and the buckles now in use are subject to the disad vantage of allowing the tie bands to slip. Both of these disadvantages I aim to overcome in proposing a novel form of buckle capable of disposition by unskilled persons and of tightly gripping the tie band ends in non-slipping relation.

In carrying out my invention I propose a buckle which is of the utmost simplicity as regards manufacture, and which has the further advantage of extreme economy.

I also propose a buckle which is so constructed and adapted to be related to the engaging ends of a tie band as to permit of its shifting movement on an axis between the tie band ends so as to twist itself and one of the tie band ends into firm gripping and non' slipping relation.

With the above in mind, my invention will be better understood from the following detailed description, reference being made to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which-- I Figure 1 is a face view of my improved buckle showing the same in operative relation to the adjacent ends of a tie band and in receiving position,

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the buckle in the locked position after axial shifting movement through the expanding pressure of a bale,

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section through Fig. 2, and

Fig. 1 is a detail perspective view of the buckle removed.

Referring now to these figures and particularly to Fig. 4:, my invention proposes a bale tie buckle consisting of a flat metal 7 body 10 which may be stamped from a sheet of metal and perforated at the same time to form a pair of spaced tie band receiving openings 11 and 12. The openings 11 and 12 are, it will be noted, inclined with respect to one another and so related as that in the receiving position of the buckle as shown in Fig. 1, they will be positioned in oifset relation.

The opening 11 is in the nature of a slot, conformable in shape to the cross section of a tieband, the opposite end portions of which are respectively indicated at 13 and 1 1- in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive.

The opening 12 on the other hand, shown in the present instance, as of triangular form, is such that the tie band end 14: which is looped therethrough with its extremity doubled back as indicated at 15 in Fig. 3 may have angular movement in the opening for a purpose to be presently described.

in use, and in its receiving position as shown in Fig. 1, the buckle is disposed flatwise against the side of a bale with its slotted opening 11 at right angles to the plane of the tie band, the end 141 of which is extended through the opening 12 and engages both of the outer edges 16 and 17 of this opening. After the extremity 15 of the tie band end 14: is doubled beneath the same and compression applied to the bale, the end 13 of the tie band is slipped through the slot or opening 11, as seen in Fig. 1, as far as it is possible to do so and when the bale is released, its expanding pressure tends to shift the buckle axially from the position shown in Fig. 1 to the position shown in Fig. 2, as the two ends of the tie band naturally seek alined relation.

During this movement, it is obvious that while the tie hand end 14: may shift angularly in the opening 12 into uniform engagement with the elongated outer edge 17 of the opening, the other opening 11 will be shifted to a position inclined with respect to a right angle of the tie band and will thus tend to twist the tie band end 13 as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, forming a shoulder which will obviously hold this end of the tie band in non-slipping relation with the buckle by virtue of the then inclined position of opening 11.

It is obvious from the foregoing that the disposition and use of my improved buckle needs little if any particular skill and results an extremely effective grip and nonas the first opening, and conformable in shape to the cross section of the band, said openings providing for insertion of tie band ends through the same face of the buckle and being laterally offset in the tie band receiving position whereby to cause a rocking movement of the buckle by the expand ing pressure of thebale and twist the portion of the band extending through the sec- 0nd opening to form a shoulder thereon, as

described.

ROBERT onAn Es BANi s. 

